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I only play 2e,how's it compare to pathfinder? 3.5e sucks, 4e sucks, 5e sucks
I only play 2e,how's it compare to pathfinder? 3.5e sucks, 4e sucks, 5e sucks
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@sampler only played 5 and 5.5. from what i've heard pf1e is basically dnd 3.5, pf2e deviates a bunch but ig the dnd edition it's closest to should still be 3.5
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@sampler specifically wanna play pf2e, the action economy, feat system, leaning into crits and the ways they let martials scale sound really cool. Coming from dnd 5e i also want a system that actually has rules for downtime stuff like crafting and gives me numbers again
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@snacks if you can grab a few people across fediverse i think we could play on mumble no problem
The keys to making online DND work in my experience:
- online bulletin board
- wiki
- group call with dice bot
- online whiteboard
That's it, no other special software needed. Bulletin board and wiki synthesize in a really pleasing way while group call / dice bot / whiteboard obviously are what make the game run. I've always ran imageboards for my games and they make good places for dumping PDFs and sharing art and banter between games
Something like https://www.when2meet.com/ is really useful for coordinating schedules across timezones
I'm racist against Discord; mumble has a dice bot, Gikopoi also has dice rolling built in
I always thought attempting some kind of TTRPG over forums (eg post once a day or whatever) could be fun to try but it would have a totally different feeling
The keys to making online DND work in my experience:
- online bulletin board
- wiki
- group call with dice bot
- online whiteboard
That's it, no other special software needed. Bulletin board and wiki synthesize in a really pleasing way while group call / dice bot / whiteboard obviously are what make the game run. I've always ran imageboards for my games and they make good places for dumping PDFs and sharing art and banter between games
Something like https://www.when2meet.com/ is really useful for coordinating schedules across timezones
I'm racist against Discord; mumble has a dice bot, Gikopoi also has dice rolling built in
I always thought attempting some kind of TTRPG over forums (eg post once a day or whatever) could be fun to try but it would have a totally different feeling
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@snacks my pitch for OSR (2e) is that the rules are simple , simple rules encourage creativity vs just throwing dice to drive the story, and the world can be pretty sandboxxy
as an outsider (never read the books or learned anything about it) i feel like pathfinder would be more focused on having a really refined battle system and tactics and such, kinda like video games
so it'd be fun to try, what i hate about 3.5e is doing anything depends on looking up multiple charts and tables and gaming the engine and minmaxing becomes part of the game, what is the meme "roll playing vs role playing" while OSR is rules lite so the numbers and charts and tables kinda take a back seat to "does this make sense" , "is this good for the story"
as an outsider (never read the books or learned anything about it) i feel like pathfinder would be more focused on having a really refined battle system and tactics and such, kinda like video games
so it'd be fun to try, what i hate about 3.5e is doing anything depends on looking up multiple charts and tables and gaming the engine and minmaxing becomes part of the game, what is the meme "roll playing vs role playing" while OSR is rules lite so the numbers and charts and tables kinda take a back seat to "does this make sense" , "is this good for the story"
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@sampler i have a regular dnd group, just need to convince them to play with me.
I did manage to play a small campaign with fedi people once
I did manage to play a small campaign with fedi people once
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